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Can we really sin and not have future or immediate consequences in ourselves? Not according to the Scriptures. Sexual immorality causes us to sin against our own bodies, the Bible says. We join ourselves to others in the sexual act and become one with them. What happens when we have multiple sexual partners outside of marriage or monogamy? That is the question that we don’t really know about until the judgment time, and there is certainly a judgment time coming. This judgment time is talked about many times in the New Testament. We are going to be judged according to our deeds in the flesh.

Some Christians say we don’t have to worry about this because grace will cover our sin in God’s eyes. The Bible does not teach this exclusively. Grace is a truth, but judgment for sin is also a truth in the Bible. These two truths are reconciled by rightly dividing the word of truth. We understand that there is grace to cover our sin, and we understand that we have the tools to conquer our sin in Christ. We must understand that we are required to overcome sin in our lives through the power and the enablement of the Holy Spirit. We need to call on God for this provision and for the courage to acknowledge and fight our sin (s). Grace is what is provided by God in the interim period in this fight for victory over sin, personally and corporately.

We have a situation in North America where we disallow the reality of demons and the devil. In the book of Luke we read of demons causing havoc in the physical bodies of people. Convulsions, insanity, deaf and mute demons, legions of demonic entities found living in some people at the time of Jesus. This is so foreign to us that we cannot even go there in our minds. In these biblical accounts the demons exercise a good amount of control over the people affected. They required deliverance and freedom from demons that is provided through a miracle done by Jesus.

We cannot engage the culture of our day recklessly. There needs to be an extreme caution as to what we do and what we accept into our lives. We cannot sin knowingly as Christians. This will be a sure condemnation in ourselves. The Bible says that once we have known Jesus and we delve into sin for some supposed benefit there may not be any more sacrifice for sins available to us. What does this mean? A sure judgement, and a sure penalty, perhaps for an eternity.

We people have understood in times past that up is up and down is down. Now we have a condition in our society and the world where authorities are saying that up is not up, and down is not down. We are being told, “you must change your thinking going forward”. “It is for the best of people and for the planet.” We the people are being manipulated to an end. We are not being told what this end is going to look like, other than it is apparently for the best. One area in a state of topsy-turvy is human sexuality. Authorities are saying that biological evidence is not a fact to be considered in human sexuality. “If you choose to be a man then be a man.” “Men can bear children if they are in possession of a uterus, hormones, and other materials needed for childbearing.”

We are losing our minds. We are being given over to a mind that cannot think logically and straight, or perhaps, a mind that refuses to do so. The consequence of this is believing lies and falsehoods. Living in an unreal state and in mental illness. Our mental wishes do not change reality. Men are not in possession of altering what is real in nature, and yet, this is exactly what is being attempted in sexual identity. If we look at this in Biblical scripture, we are trying to call what is perverse and distorted about sexuality ‘normal’ in our day. And yet, we see more and more perversions of sexuality as concessions are being made by society as a whole. We are heading toward an abysmal state of debauchery and unnatural, wicked expressions of sexuality in our world. We will become worse than ‘animals’ by far.

Where is this coming from? It appears it is coming from the upper levels of our society. Our leaders. What can be going on in their lives that they would try to make these kind of changes to our society, and to our laws? Who can be guiding them or influencing them? What benefit is before these leaders to cause them to capitulate to the current thinking about human sexuality? Many people in upper society espouse this type of thinking. They agree with it, and think that all is ok.

As believers we cannot accept the current teachings about human sexuality as being ‘normal’. Clearly, the types of sexual behavior being encouraged today are set out in the Bible as being perverse, abnormal, and against nature.

In scripture the apostle Paul says that we are in a fight and that we are to win this fight as followers of Jesus. This fight is between righteousness and wickedness. Internally within ourselves, and externally in our world. We have to be ready to give it our all in this fight. Paul says don’t beat the air ineffectually, but understand what you are doing and how to do it. Follow the leading of the Spirit of God in your life.

This fight is the fight of faith. Staying faithful to God, listening to him, and obeying him.

This fight might be costly. The Bible says we are to count the cost, put our hands to the plow, and don’t look back. We are either for righteousness or against it. These are the two positions in our world at the present time.

The Bible says that if we fight for righteousness God will be at our right hand. He will teach our hands to war and our fingers to fight. He will be our shield all around. If we stand he will be our helper to deliver us from our enemies.

Scripture is clear. Believers have enemies. Those who want to destroy righteousness, kill God, and live in the lusts of their flesh. King David says that God’s enemies are his enemies and that he hates them with a pure hatred.

What we are seeing in the USA today is dizzying The divide that has occurred between people who want to throw off all restraint of righteousness and people who are trying to maintain some kind of righteousness in the land. This is not a political divide. It is not a racial divide. It is righteousness and wickedness fighting each other within both groups of people.

As Believers we need to declare ourselves on God’s side. Take this stance in our lives and come what may stand in it. God will help us and show himself faithful to us. We have this well known quote from Joshua, ‘Choose you this day who you will serve.. but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.’

I think what we need to do as believers today is appreciate what we have in the Lord and add to it. Something is happening in the world in our day and I think that most people can attest to this. Many times we do not understand what is happening. We have ideas, or thoughts about what the problems are. We think we have some solutions, but they may not be as effective as we think they will be if in fact these ideas were implemented in our culture and our nations. There is a point where people will not do as God asks them to do. In reading the book of Jeremiah I read where God’s people were totally rejected and forsaken and were led away to Babylon by their captors. It was one generation (70 years) before the people began to return. It was the children and grandchildren of those who were exiled who made the journey back to Judah and Jerusalem. It was when they went into captivity that the people who were exiled made the decision that they were going to serve God only. Before that time they were into all kinds of things that God had asked them not to do through his prophets and his word.

What about us? We need to treasure what we have in God. We can be free from sin and we need to take advantage of this grace given to us by Jesus through the Holy Spirit. We have our needs met and we need to thank God everyday for his goodness and mercy. We can talk to God directly and petition him. We need to recognize what a privilege this is. We have the ability to do what God has asked us to do through the Holy Spirit. We need to seek the Holy Spirit in our lives and accept his conditions for us. We’re not running our lives, He is. If you are running yours then I think you may be in danger of going into captivity. You may never be able to return to God. The Bible says ‘the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom’. Many Christians have not reached this point. God is a teddy bear, a sugar daddy, for their wishes and excesses. This is destruction for their soul. God hasn’t changed his mind about sin. The blood of Jesus does not excuse sin or cover for it forever. We have to work at living the way God wants us to. He provides the ability. Any Christian who says that they do not have the power to refuse sin is in danger of being overcome by that sin. They may find themselves in a place they had never imagined they would be. Just like the exiles in Jeremiah’s time.

We have teachers today who scratch our itchy ears, and tell us what we want to hear.as North American Christians. We need to wake up and save ourselves in the midst of this ungodly generation. ‘Work out your salvation with fear and trembling’, is the Bible’s admonition.